I wanted a nano, and instead I have to write a novel.

[f4f3]

Due to a confusion on the web-site (NaNoWriMo) I am not getting an extremely small mp3 player after all, and instead I've signed up to write a novel in a month. Well, 50,000 words.

This gives me a chance to get my Sergio Leone/Hunter S Thompson/Laurel and Hardy tribute written, which has ben niggling at me ever since my friend Bill ranted so entertainingly about why Fantasy is in such a bad way...

At the moment I know that it's got two main characters, someone has an impotency curse laid on him in chapter one, it features a stable lad who is not a secret darling of destiny, and a character called The Man With The Map.

Does that count as an outline?

Oh, and it's going to be called "Never Apologise, Never Explain", since I'll have no time to re-write or edit myself...

Comments

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

No, that doesn't count as an outline.

That doesn't count as a title, either.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I LIKE my title. It certainly suits what I plan to write.

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

It's counter-cultural for the genre, methinks. But I expect Tolkien's publisher gave him untold grief for 'The Fellowship of the Ring'.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Well, the full quote runs something like "Never apologise, never explain, and never leave any live witnesses." which is much more appropriate, but there will be a fair bit of genre bending going on anyway...

[liadnan]

Nah. 'twas their (Allen & Unwin as was) choice. He gave them untold grief about "Return of the King" because it gave too much away, he thought.

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

Not an accusation that could be levelled at The Silmarillion.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I miss my old copy of the Silmarillion.... it was a lovely size and weight. Oh, and I liked bits of the inside too...

[pshtaku.livejournal.com]

Cool! So you'll have it all done by end Nov?

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

That's the plan...

[goldenbrown69.livejournal.com]

Hhhmmmmm, another novel writer. I want to read this one. I have literally dozens of novels that have one, two and possibly three chapters, but not a one of them is finished.

I like the idea of a man with a map. I had a rather good idea about a map novel once. It's here somewhere....

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I took a few months off, once, and wrote one to the finish. It didn't sell, plus I found out what first novels generally pay, so I stopped.

One month I can do, though.

Vellum has a lovely conceit about maps at the start, and I've always loved the idea of Riverworld, which was a huge Dyson sphere (I think. Or was it a ring?)

More notes

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Must remember:

"Two swords would be more even"

and the title is probbly now

"Bloodraven Takes a Walk"

There's a key passage from Lord of Light for tone which I'll try to remember to copy out here.

Re: More notes

[pshtaku.livejournal.com]

When I think of swords I think of "but there is something you don't know - I am not left-handed"

Re: More notes

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

"I admit it, you are better than I am."
"Then why are you smiling?"
"Because I know something you do not"
"And what is that?"
"I too am not left handed."